Walt Disney Animation Studios
American animation studio
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| March 2025 | Jon Favreau was reported to be developing a live-action animated hybrid series based on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Disney+. |
| March 2025 | Disney announced the cancellation of the Tiana television series due to high production costs, deciding instead to produce a television special based on the film. |
| March 3 2025 | Announced the shelving of all television series in production and development, pivoting away from longform streaming content to focus on theatrical productions |
| February 2025 | Concept art for the unproduced 'Pepper Ann's Rio Adventure' film by animation director Richard Bowman was discovered on Ebay. |
| January 21 2025 | Kiff 2: Lore of the Ring Light was released. |
| 2024 | Postponed release year for the Tiana streaming series. |
| 2024 | Premiered Iwájú TV series, a co-production with Kugali Media and Cinesite |
| 2024 | Disney confirmed at D23 Expo that the Tiana series was still in production. |
| 2024 | Pixar planned to produce a feature film called 'Blade', originally intended to be released between Cars 3 and Toy Story 4, as revealed by animator Christian Roman. |
| 2024 | Pixar had plans for a feature film titled 'BeFri', intended to be released sometime after the movie Elemental, according to animator Christian Roman. |
| 2024 | Moana 2 is anticipated, projected to gross $456,118,310 |
| 2024 | Scheduled to release Iwájú, a TV series co-production with Kugali Media and Cinesite. |
| November 27 2024 | Moana 2 is released as the most recent animated feature from Walt Disney Animation Studios. |
| October 5 2024 | Kiff: The Haunting of Miss McGravy's House was released. |
| September 2024 | Jennifer Lee announces her departure as Disney Animation's chief creative officer to focus on directing Frozen 3 and writing/executive producing Frozen 4. Jared Bush is named as her successor. |
| June 2024 | Disney Television Animation announced the revival of the Prep & Landing franchise with a new special called 'Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol', scheduled for release on Disney+ in 2025. |
| June 9 2024 | Disney+ will release the Donald Duck short 'D.I.Y. Duck', directed by Mark Henn. |
| June 6 2024 | Big City Greens: The Movie was released as a television movie. |
| January 1 2024 | Steamboat Willie entered the public domain, marking a significant moment for the historic animation that serves as the basis for Walt Disney Animation Studios' production logo. |
| 2023 | Pixar quietly cancelled an untitled follow-up series to Win or Lose, ending the potential project's development. |
| 2023 | Reiterated openness to hand-drawn animation project proposals. |
| November 2023 | Wish released as a 2D/CG hybrid musical-fantasy film inspired by Disney's 100th anniversary, receiving mixed reviews and nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. |
| October 2023 | Disney celebrates its 100th anniversary, marked by the release of the live-action/animated short film Once Upon a Studio. |
| August 18 2023 | LEGO Disney Princess: The Castle Quest was released. |
| May 26 2023 | The Little Mermaid live-action remake released, directed by Rob Marshall, with Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda creating new music. The film grossed $569.6 million worldwide and became the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2023. |
| March 2023 | The show's page changed to 'coming soon to Disney+' with the release date removed. |
| 2022 | Tom Caulfield, alongside creators Bill Motz and Bob Roth, pitched a crossover animated series featuring The Rescuers and The Great Mouse Detective at Disney Television Animation. The proposed series would have centered on the descendant of Basil working in a modern Rescue Aid Society, similar to The Kingsman or Mission: Impossible, led by Bianca. The project was ultimately scrapped due to the release of the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers film. |
| 2022 | Initial planned release year for the Tiana television series, which was later postponed. |
| 2022 | Launched Baymax! as a full TV series on Disney+. |
| December 27 2022 | Disney released the webtoon short '8-Bit Strange World'. |
| December 1 2022 | A new Oswald the Lucky Rabbit webtoon short was released, directed by Eric Goldberg. |
| November 2022 | Strange World released as a CGI action-adventure film, which became a box-office failure despite positive reviews. |
| July 2022 | Marc Forster was announced as the director for a live-action adaptation of 'The Graveyard Book', with a new production team including Renée Wolfe, Gil Netter, and Ben Brown. |
| May 16 2022 | Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers movie was released. |
| April 2022 | Eric Goldberg confirmed internal plans to potentially return to hand-drawn animation. |
| 2021 | Release of 'June Bug' short as part of Disney Animation summer internship program |
| 2021 | Matt Danner, a Disney Television Animation veteran, revealed that the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series development was interrupted, with the team being 'broken up and scattered to the wind'. |
| 2021 | Released How to Stay at Home series. |
| 2021 | Encanto franchise starts, continuing Disney's tradition of diverse storytelling and cultural representation. |
| November 2021 | Encanto released in theaters with a 30-day exclusive run, later released on Disney+ on December 24. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and received additional Oscar nominations. |
| November 24 2021 | Walt Disney Animation Studios released 'Far from the Tree', a hybrid animation short film directed by Natalie Nourigat, which was shown in theaters with 'Encanto'. |
| August 2021 | Disney Animation opens a new animation studio in Vancouver, with operations starting in 2022 under the leadership of Amir Nasrabadi. |
| March 2021 | Raya and the Last Dragon released simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access, grossing over $130 million and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. |
| March 5 2021 | Walt Disney Animation Studios released 'Us Again', a short film directed by Zach Parrish, which was shown in theaters with 'Raya and the Last Dragon'. The short film was created using computer animation. |
| February 26 2021 | Disney+ released 'Myth: A Frozen Tale', a short film by director Jeff Gibson with a two-minute behind-the-scenes introduction. |
| 2020 | Premiered Zenimation series on Disney+. |
| December 2020 | Walt Disney Animation Studios announced the development of a television series called Tiana, based on The Princess and the Frog, set to explore Tiana's life as a princess in Maldonia and New Orleans. |
| December 2020 | Disney Animation announces expansion into television series production, primarily for Disney+, including CG series like Baymax!, Zootopia+, and Iwájú. |
| October 23 2020 | Disney+ premiered the Frozen short 'Once Upon a Snowman', directed by Dan Abraham and Trent Correy. |
| September 4 2020 | Mulan live-action adaptation released on Disney+ due to COVID-19 pandemic, directed by Niki Caro with Harry Gregson-Williams as composer. The film was a financial disappointment, grossing only $70 million against a $200 million budget. |
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